Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution
Madison Smartt Bell$11.86
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Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists. Madison Smartt Bell's enthralling narrative reads like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation as the father of modern chemistry--a considerable fortune and social connections with the likes of Benjamin Franklin--also caused his glory to be cut short by the French Revolution.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/17/2006
ISBN: 9780393328547
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.86h x 6.38w x 0.57d
Review Citations: New York Times 08/06/2006 pg. 24